Value and Crisis' brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists today. This book examines the labour theory of value from a rich and innovative perspective, from which fresh insights and new perspectives are derived, with...

"Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, 'Value Chains' examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical...

This paper addresses the marketing concept of brand equity from a semiotic perspective, by demonstrating why and how the notions of code/subcode are central in accounting for the multifarious dimensions of brand value. Based on the basic premises that surplus of meaning is reflected in surplus...

This article presents the marginal approach to the labour theory of value. The difficulties of the classical and Marxian labour theory of value are overcome when labour value is understood as marginal labour value analogously to marginal cost. Marginal labour value is the reciprocal of the...

This paper disproves Ricardo's simple relation between cost and price. Instead, it shows that a more valuable worker may lead to lower price, or more quantity and profit. This paper also shows that practicing Ricardo's simple-minded logic is despotic with suicidal result, and that its...